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Phase-shift instanton approach to tunneling duality in Read--Rezayi state

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-05-05 v1

Abstract

We study the duality between quasi-particle and electron tunneling in point-contact geometries of fractional quantum Hall states. To treat non-Abelian edge operators, we introduce a "phase-shift instanton" that incorporates phase factors from primary fields into the instanton gas framework. Using this method, we reformulate the Moore--Read duality and obtain an explicit dual description for the k=3k=3 Read-Rezayi state. Our results clarify how quasi-particle tunneling produces characteristic phase shifts in instantons and how these shifts map strong quasi-particle tunneling to weak electron tunneling. Based on this dual description, we analytically evaluate the non-linear differential conductance in the strong-coupling regime. We reveal that, due to the physical requirement that the tunneling particle across the vacuum gap must be a true fermion, the transport behavior universally converges to a GV4G \propto V^4 scaling for both the Moore--Read and Read--Rezayi states. This universal transport signature highlights a fundamental topological constraint underlying non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall edges.

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@article{arxiv.2605.01206,
  title  = {Phase-shift instanton approach to tunneling duality in Read--Rezayi state},
  author = {Ryoi Ohashi and Hiroki Isobe and Ryota Nakai and Kentaro Nomura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.01206},
  year   = {2026}
}